GC3B71MAres (A Greek Miniseries)
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By: TotallyAwesomeSocks@
| Hide Date: 01/20/2012
| Status: Available
Country: United States
| State: Colorado Coordinates: N38° 12.209 W104° 33.473 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Part of a small series of caches pertaining to Greek Mythology. I hope you enjoy learning about these times as much as I do!
At no time will you have to cross a fence.
Congrats to Cx4 for the nighttime FTF!The Greek god of war and battle and the instigator of violence, a son of Zeus and Hera. Because of his cruel and war-like nature he was despised by all the gods, even his own father disliked him. Ares could be bloody, merciless, fearful and cowardly and possessed no moral attributes. He was, however, unable to withstand the loveliness of Aphrodite, who subsequently became his consort.
Ares was of giant stature and had a loud voice, and surpassed the other gods in speed. He usually fought on foot, but could sometimes be found riding a chariot. On the battlefield Ares was accompanied by Phobos ("Fear") and Deimos ("Terror"), two lesser divinities who are sometimes given as his sons. He was furthermore attended by the goddesses Eris ("Strife") and Enyo ("Horror"). Ares is also the father of Harmonia, the goddess of harmony, and of the Amazonian queens Penthesileia and Hippolyte.
During the Trojan War, Ares favored the Trojans although he had little regard for the justice of the cause of the conflict he was backing. Ares often helped non-Greek peoples, such as the Trojans and the Amazons.
Ares' cult was never fully popular in Hellas and there were only a few temples dedicated to him. His cult was probably introduced from Thrace, the region where he was held in high regard and which was traditionally the land of the Amazons. Ares was the object of a special cult in Thebes where he had a spring and which was guarded by his son, the Aeionian Dracon. It was killed by Cadmus who then had to serve the war-god for eight years, after which the gods allowed him to marry Ares' daughter Harmonia.
Etymologically his name may mean "destroyer" or "avenger."
The Romans equated them with Mars and their war-god was of much more significance than Ares.
03/31/2019 By DustyKat Traveling down this road on a Sunday turned out to be a great day to get these caches with minimal traffic. Thanks for the series
07/15/2018 By SeekDaCache Once we learned about the Hidden Creature Challenge we knew we would have to travel in order to complete the challenge. We simply did not have one hundred caches within 40 miles to be able to log. Since we had not been in the Pueblo area for years we decided to cache our way to and then in the area.
Our second day of caching in and around the Pueblo area before heading home, included more maintenance on 10 more caches. We replaced caches, logs and containers on ignored caches by the owners. We had completed the Hidden Creature Challenge yesterday but enjoyed the new area while adding to our numbers. SL,TNLN,TFTC
Thank you TotallyAwesomeSocks for placing this cache for our enjoyment.
02/06/2018 By Parentsof4Ks On vacation, staying with daughter, Gnome-Goddess, in Pueblo. Caching Pueblo area today. Our daughter has a meeting so grabbing a few she already has found. Signing as Parentsof4ks or pof4ks or p4k. Tftc
01/14/2018 By stephpueblo The log is damp. Might need a new container. Thanks for the series!
Ares (A Greek Miniseries)
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